Commentary

As Congress moves to take up revisions to the Export Administration Act - the law that is the basis

Formal debate on health care legislation will begin this week in Congress, where Senate and House De

Why John Stocker resigned from the Shipbuilders Council of America has been the source of muchspecul

Many Americans think of Washington, D.C., as a city of great monuments and marble places. Others may

PRESIDENT CLINTON talks a good game on free trade, and sometimes - as in the Nafta fight last year -

Unemployment has been increasing in Western Europe for 20 years. By 1993 more than 17 million people

VENEZUELA DEFENDS ITS ECONOMIC PLANYour July 28 article, "Venezuela's Economic Crisi

CHINA CAN BE A DIFFICULT PLACE to do business, what with overt trade barriers, inconsistent commerci

ISRAEL AND JORDAN, whose agreement last week ended 46 years of war, are losing no time getting down

DISASTER PROTECTION BILL FILLS A NEEDThis letter responds to the inaccurate depiction of the

The Uruguay Round trade deal was negotiated to help expand world markets for U.S. and other exporter

For most of the postwar era, when the industrialized nations sneezed, the emerging countries of Asia

WITH PROTESTS mounting here and in Europe, U.S. regulators are launching a formal probe of the shipp

It is common political sport to complain that business is too big, firing here, slashing there, acqu

Did you know that wherever you live in the country, you are "protected" by California against grower

Federal Reserve Chairman Alan Greenspan likes to brag about his success in reducing inflation. He to

KEEPING AIR CARGO SERVICE RELIABLEthe last month, your newspaper has reported that both USAi

No freight moved by rail in Britain for the better part of three days last week as striking signalme

In a recent series of essays, Stanford economics professor Paul Krugman critiques the concept of nat

AMID LAST WEEK'S clamor in Congress over the pending world trade deal, the Clinton administration sc

The American Trucking Associations is keeping a close eye on the Environmental Protection Agency's i

EUROPE'S SUBSIDY TAP opened again last week and $6 billion in government aid came pouring out. That'

Economists, politicians and editorial writers periodically warn that low investment and saving rates

The bloody war over the picturesque mountain enclave of Nagorno Karabakh in the Caucasus has continu

IT'S TIME for the Clinton administration to resume aviation talks with Britain and Japan. The United

India is fast becoming an attractive market for investment. British, German and Japanese businesses

NEW CUSTOMS PROGRAM WORKS WELLYour July 14 article, "Users Give Poor Grades to NY-NJ Customs

The nature of fierce fights between labor and management has changed greatly over the decades as uni

GOVERNMENTS around the world are racing to keep up with the surge in telecommunications deals. In Eu

As the debate over reforming the U.S. health-care system shifts into high gear, there are those who

IF YOU'RE A TRANSPORTATION LAWYER, life just got more complicated. Earlier this month, while

FOR ALL THE RECENT ADVANCES in banking - from automated teller machines to electronic money transfer

You probably remember how the debate over China's most-favored-nation trading status turned out. Chi

It is time to go on vacation but I shall not be going to Britain. In fact, I had to dash the followi

LOOK WHO'S GETTING THE FREE LUNCHAnyone who wonders why the funding provisions of th

On the 20th anniversary of the Arab oil embargo in October 1993, Americans for Energy Independence s

President Clinton and Federal Reserve Chairman Alan Greenspan are sometimes at odds, but lately they

TOLLS ON THE ST. LAWRENCE SEAWAY have long been a source of dispute between the United States and Ca

EU SHIPBUILDERS REACT TO OECD PACTYour July 19 article on the shipbuilding agreement negotia

So far, the debate over whether to abolish the Interstate Commerce Commission and transferits functi